God's Witnesses

(April 8, 1968)

Condemn
your Savior not because he thinks he is a body. Far beyond his dreams is
his reality. But he must learn he is a Savior first, before he can
remember what he is. And he must save who would BE saved. On saving YOU
depends his happiness. For who is Savior, but the one who GIVES
salvation? Thus he learns it must be his to give. UNLESS he gives, he
will not know he HAS, for giving is the proof of having. Only those who
think that God is lessened by their strength could fail to understand
this must be so. For who COULD give unless he has, and who could lose by
giving what must be INCREASED thereby?

Think
you the Father LOST Himself when He created you? Was HE made weak
because He shared His Love? Was He made incomplete by YOUR perfection?
Or are you the proof that He IS perfect and complete? Deny Him not His
witness in the dream His Son prefers to his reality. He must be Savior
FROM the dream he made, that he be free of it. He must see someone ELSE
as NOT a body, one with him, without the wall the world has built to
keep apart all living things who know not that they live. Within the
dream of bodies and of death, is yet one theme of truth; no more,
perhaps, than just a tiny spark, a space of light created in the dark,
where God shines still.

You
cannot wake yourself. But you can LET yourself be wakened. You can
overlook your brother's dreams. So perfectly can you forgive him his
illusions, he becomes your Savior from YOUR dreams. And as you see him
shining in the space of light where God abides within the darkness, you
will see that God Himself is where his body is. Before this light the
body disappears, as heavy shadows MUST give way to light. The darkness
cannot CHOOSE that it remain. The coming of the light MEANS it is gone.
In glory will you see your brother then, and understand what REALLY
fills the gap so long perceived as keeping you apart.

There,
in its place, God's Witness has set forth the gentle way of kindness
to God's Son. Whom you forgive is GIVEN power to forgive you your
illusions. By your gift of freedom is it given unto YOU. Make way for
love which you did not create, but which you CAN extend. On earth this
means forgive your brother, that the darkness may be lifted from YOUR
mind. When light has come to him through your forgiveness, he will not
forget his Savior, leaving him unsaved. For it was in YOUR face he saw
the light that he would keep beside him, as he walks through darkness to
the everlasting Light.

How
holy are you, that the Son of God can be your Savior in the midst of
dreams of desolation and disaster. See how eagerly he comes, and steps
aside from heavy shadows that have hidden him, and shines on you in
gratitude and love. He is himself, but not himself alone. And as his
Father lost not part of Him in your creation, so the light in him is
brighter still, because you gave your light to him, to save him from the
dark. And now the light in you must be as bright as shines in him. This
is the spark that shines within the dream; that you can help him waken,
and be sure his waking eyes will rest upon you first, and in his glad
salvation YOU are saved.